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Hi,

I'm wanting to have a very simple page with the facility to do as
follows:

The user inputs some data into the text box, and clicks a button
The user is then submitted to a url depending on the variable, example:

www.mysite.com/variablehere/etc/etc.html

Where variable here is the value that the user has entered in the text
box.

How wuold I go about doing this?

I know HTML fairly well, but that's about all I know, so please answer
as you would to a 5 year old, cheers!

TIA,
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Neil

wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wanting to have a very simple page with the facility to do as
> follows:
>
> The user inputs some data into the text box, and clicks a button
> The user is then submitted to a url depending on the variable, example:
>
> www.mysite.com/variablehere/etc/etc.html
>
> Where variable here is the value that the user has entered in the text
> box.
>
> How wuold I go about doing this?

Have your server-side form handler work out whether the user's input
would product a valid URL and one that can be found, and the send the
appropriate header to redirect the user to that location.

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Hywel

wrote:
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm wanting to have a very simple page with the facility to do as
> > follows:
> >
> > The user inputs some data into the text box, and clicks a button
> > The user is then submitted to a url depending on the variable, example:
> >
> > www.mysite.com/variablehere/etc/etc.html
> >
> > Where variable here is the value that the user has entered in the text
> > box.
> >
> > How wuold I go about doing this?
>
> Have your server-side form handler work out whether the user's input
> would product a valid URL and one that can be found, and the send the
> appropriate header to redirect the user to that location.
>

Nvm Hywel, got it cracked now, fyi this is how I've done it with no SSI
at all.

A colleague as done it as a VB script.

Cheers
--
Neil

wrote:
> wrote:
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm wanting to have a very simple page with the facility to do as
> > > follows:
> > >
> > > The user inputs some data into the text box, and clicks a button
> > > The user is then submitted to a url depending on the variable, example:
> > >
> > > www.mysite.com/variablehere/etc/etc.html
> > >
> > > Where variable here is the value that the user has entered in the text
> > > box.
> > >
> > > How wuold I go about doing this?
> >
> > Have your server-side form handler work out whether the user's input
> > would product a valid URL and one that can be found, and the send the
> > appropriate header to redirect the user to that location.
> >
>
> Nvm Hywel, got it cracked now, fyi this is how I've done it with no SSI
> at all.
>
> A colleague as done it as a VB script.

Server-side, I suppose? Or is this for a closed user group?

--
Hywel

wrote:
> wrote:
>> wrote:
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm wanting to have a very simple page with the facility to do as
>>>> follows:
>>>>
>>>> The user inputs some data into the text box, and clicks a button
>>>> The user is then submitted to a url depending on the variable,
>>>> example:
>>>>
>>>> www.mysite.com/variablehere/etc/etc.html
>>>>
>>>> Where variable here is the value that the user has entered in the
>>>> text box.
>>>>
>>>> How wuold I go about doing this?
>>>
>>> Have your server-side form handler work out whether the user's input
>>> would product a valid URL and one that can be found, and the send
>>> the appropriate header to redirect the user to that location.
>>>
>>
>> Nvm Hywel, got it cracked now, fyi this is how I've done it with no
>> SSI at all.
>>
>> A colleague as done it as a VB script.
>
> Server-side, I suppose? Or is this for a closed user group?

No, not server side as I mentioned (ah, I meantioned SSI, when I actually
meant no server side stuff at all, my bad!)

It's a closed user group (it is on a W2K networked drive) and works a treat!

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